Example sentences of "try and [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 2 | to try and finish for half past twelve if we can . |
| 3 | Did you try and compensate for that by the way you set up your Cabinet-committee structure ? |
| 4 | right , okay , when should we try and go for that maybe at the end of April beginning of May ? |
| 5 | Well let's try and go for that then . |
| 6 | Various soldiers had , it said , been tried and imprisoned for such crimes . |
| 7 | Not a big problem , but enough of one to have tried and failed for several years at everything from Weightwatchers to F-Plan . |